Herbs, prostrate to spreading, compact mats, 1-4.5(-5) × 2-8(-10) dm. Aerial flowering stems erect, 1.5-3 dm, usually floccose, without one or more leaflike bracts ca. midlength. Leaves in loose rosettes; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, (0.3-)0.5-2(-4) × 0.3-1(-1.5) cm, densely whitish-, greenish-, or reddish-lanate abaxially, glabrous and olive green to bright green adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences umbellate; branches (2-)3-9 cm, usually floccose, without a whorl of bracts ca. midlength; involucral tubes 2-3.5 mm, lobes 1-4 mm. Flowers 3-7(-9.5) mm; perianth cream. 2n = 76.
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